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TIL That Since the Island of Bermuda Does not Have any Fresh-Water, all of the Houses Have to Collect Water From Rainfall With Their Specially Designed Roofs.

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XEwwj TIL of Walter Freeman, a man with no surgical training who popularized the transorbital lobotomy by driving around the US performing thousands of procedures on not just men but women and children too. Contrary to popular believe, there is no evidence that he referred to his van as the "Lobotomobile"
bnXp TIL that when vandals in Billings, Mont., targeted Jewish families by smashing windows where menorahs were being displayed, thousands of non-Jewish residents displayed menorahs in their own windows in a show of solidarity, bringing a stop to the attacks.
690Mw TIL Neptune is not blue in colour, instead it's pale greenish-blue, as is Uranus. The original photos of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in 1980s had been enhanced to highlight it's atmospheric features. Over time the captions of this changes were left out and blue became the defining colour of Neptune.
wLQM TIL there is an log that has been floating in Crater Lake, Oregon for over 100 years
Y7GXG TIL a quine is a computer program that takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.